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C.W. Bill Young
C.W. Bill Young
stated on September 20, 2013 a House address
If the government shuts down, "all military personnel will continue to serve and accrue pay but will not actually be paid until appropriations are available."
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By Julie Kliegman • September 24, 2013
Scott Walker
Scott Walker
stated on July 29, 2013 a speech
Says President Franklin Delano Roosevelt "felt there wasn’t a need in the public sector to have collective bargaining because the government is the people."
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By Dave Umhoefer • August 14, 2013
Karen Handel
Karen Handel
stated on July 18, 2013 a Twitter post
"The Senate immigration bill is … filled with things like rewards for au pair agencies, Alaskan seafood processors and Vegas casinos."
True
By Janel Davis • July 26, 2013
Tom Cole
Tom Cole
stated on July 16, 2013 an MSNBC interview
Food stamp spending "doubled under President Bush, doubled again under President Obama."  
True
By Becky Bowers • July 19, 2013
Sherrod Brown
Sherrod Brown
stated on June 12, 2013 a conference call with reporters
"Some of these members of the House of Representatives get hundreds of thousands of dollars in farm subsidies" but want to cut food stamps.
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By Stephen Koff • June 18, 2013
Randy Forbes
Randy Forbes
stated on April 9, 2013 a column.
Says the U.S. fleet of attack submarines is scheduled to fall below the 48 boats that Navy says it needs to carry out current missions.
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By Nancy Madsen • April 26, 2013
Sarah Palin
Sarah Palin
stated on March 16, 2013 a speech at CPAC
"Seven of the 10 highest-income counties in the country ring the city" of Washington D.C.
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By Molly Moorhead • March 20, 2013
Cory Booker
Cory Booker
stated on February 1, 2013 a panel discussion on HBO’s “Real Time with Bill Maher”
Says "right now, we have more military spending than the next 10, 11, 12 countries combined."
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By Bill Wichert • February 10, 2013
Earl Blumenauer
Earl Blumenauer
stated on December 21, 2012 in a news release
Says ending the direct payment farm subsidy program "could save up to $28.4 billion over ten years that could be used to reduce the deficit."
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By Charles Pope • February 1, 2013
Jim Jordan
Jim Jordan
stated on January 6, 2013 an interview on Fox News Sunday
Seven of America’s 10 wealthiest counties are in the Washington, D.C., area.
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By Sabrina Eaton • January 14, 2013
Jim Moran
Jim Moran
stated on November 21, 2012 a letter.
Says budget savings by reducing pay and benefits for federal employees total $103 billion over 10 years -- more than $50,000 per worker.
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By Nancy Madsen • December 17, 2012
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on November 9, 2012 a newspaper interview
Budget analysts say the looming tax hikes and spending cuts would  "take us into a recession and kill jobs."
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By Stephen Koff • November 15, 2012
Leonard Lance
Leonard Lance
stated on October 11, 2012 a debate
Says Barack Obama "said when he was running for office four years ago that he would halve the annual deficit by the end of his first term. That simply has not happened."
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By Bill Wichert • October 21, 2012
Bob Corker
Bob Corker
stated on September 22, 2012 in a press release.
"We haven’t passed a budget in more than three years and not a single appropriations bill has been brought to the floor this year."
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By Michael Collins • September 28, 2012
Barry Hinckley
Barry Hinckley
stated on September 14, 2012 a story on 630WPRO.com
A poll conducted in Egypt revealed that 80 percent of Egyptians oppose receiving foreign aid from the United States.
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By C. Eugene Emery Jr. • September 26, 2012
Leonard Lance
Leonard Lance
stated on September 5, 2012 an interview on NJToday
"The Senate has not passed a budget in more than three years, not a good budget, not a bad budget, no budget."
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By Bill Wichert • September 12, 2012
Rob Portman
Rob Portman
stated on September 6, 2012 a news release
"$16 trillion (the national debt) in $1 bills would cover the entire state of Ohio nearly 1.5 times."
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By Tom Feran • September 12, 2012
Bill Clinton
Bill Clinton
stated on September 5, 2012 a speech at the Democratic National Convention in Charlotte, N.C.
Says U.S. Rep. Paul Ryan attacked the president for "the same amount of Medicare savings that (Ryan) had in his own budget."
True
By Becky Bowers • September 6, 2012
Stephanie Cutter
Stephanie Cutter
stated on August 12, 2012 an interview on "Face the Nation"
Says Paul Ryan's budget relies on the same $700 billion in savings from Medicare that Mitt Romney and other Republicans have been attacking Democrats about.
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By Angie Drobnic Holan • August 15, 2012
Tommy Thompson
Tommy Thompson
stated on June 4, 2012 a speech
"Donna Shalala left me with 12 million doses" of smallpox vaccine and "I created enough" to vaccinate "every man, woman and child against smallpox in America."
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By Dave Umhoefer • July 30, 2012
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